• Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir [1st version]

BWV 130.1; BWV 130; BC A 179a/b

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Genre

• Chorale cantata

Proper

Psalm: Psalm 91
Epistel: Offenbarung 12, 7-12
Gospel: Matthäus 18, 1-11

Scoring

• Sopran solo, Alt solo, Tenor solo, Bass solo, Sopran, Alt, Tenor, Bass, Tromba I, Tromba II, Tromba III, Timpani, Flauto traverso, Oboe I, Oboe II, Oboe III, Violine I, Violine II, Viola, Basso continuo

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Date of origin, Work history

• First performance on September 29, 1724; subsequent performance around 1735 (autograph supplement sheets: handwriting styles and watermark) with changes in instrumentation in movement 3 (Violin I/II and Viola instead of Trumpet I–III); possibly after the death of the town piper G. Reiche (October 6, 1734). Three movements of this version were incorporated into the Pasticcio version, see BWV 130.2.

Early performances

1724-29-09, Leipzig, St. Thomas Church (Premiere) (Link to event)
EA fand im Frühgottesdienst der Thomaskirche (Predigt unbekannt), und am gleichen Tag im Vespergottesdienst der Nikolaikirche statt, hier mit Predigt vermutlich von Kayßlitz (Vertretung).
WA um 1735

relation to other works:

is part of BWV diverse [2. Jg.]
is part of BWV diverse [Jg. 2a]

relation from other works

is adapted in BWV 130/6 (o.I.) ChSBC F 105.3b
has arrangement in BWV 130.2

Introduction to the work

Link to videos:

Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir, BWV 130.1 (Netherlands Bach Society)
Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir, BWV 130.1 (J. S. Bach Stiftung St. Gallen)

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Libretto

• P. Eber (around 1555, after Dicimus grates tibi by P. Melanchthon, 1539), stanzas 1, 11–12 kept literally (movement 1 and 6), stanzas 2–10 (movement 2–5) reworked (author unknown). First print: Leipzig 1724 III, page [13]

Link to lyrics

Author Chorale

Eber, Paul (1511-1569)

Chorale

Satz 1 und 6: Paul Eber, "Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir", um 1555, Strophen 1, 11–12

in: Paul Eber, Ein schœn New Geistlich Lobgesang, Nürnberg: Friedrich Gutknecht um 1555

Original lyrics

RUS-SPsc 17.141.2.111 [Textdruck]

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Original sources

A-Wgm A 92 [= Violine II, Ergänzung] [Part(s)]
B-Bapr Papiers Reine Elisabeth No. 161 [= Clarino II] [Part(s)]
CH-CObodmer Ms.11625 [= Viola, Ergänzung] [Part(s)]
D-B 55 MS 209 [Score]
D-B Mus.ms. Bach P 895 [= Tenor, Fragment] [Part(s)]
D-B N.Mus.ms. 474 [= Basso continuo (transp.), Fragment c] [Part(s)]
D-Cv A.V,1109,(1),3 [= Clarino III] [Part(s)]
D-Eib A. A. 4 [= Basso continuo] [Part(s)]
D-F Mus Hs 1537 [= Basso continuo (transp.), Fragment b] [Part(s)]
GB-Lbl Add. MS. 41629, Faszikel 2 [= Oboe I] [Part(s)]
GB-Lbl Zweig MS. 2 [= Viola] [Part(s)]
Privatbesitz D. Ogilvy (GB-Pencaitland), BWV 130 [= Soprano] [Part(s)]
Privatbesitz Mme. Gouin (F-Paris), BWV 130 [= Clarino I] [Part(s)]
RUS-SPsc 17.141.2.111 [Textdruck] [Libretto]
US-CAh bMS Eng 870 (35a) [= Alto] [Part(s)]
US-PRscheide BWV 130 [= Oboe II, III] [Part(s)]
Unbekannter Privatbesitz (A), BWV 130 (4) [= Violine II, 1724] [Part(s)]
Unbekannter Privatbesitz, BWV 130 (1) [= Timpani] [Part(s)]
Unbekannter Privatbesitz, BWV 130 (2) [= Violine I, 1724] [Part(s)]
Unbekannter Privatbesitz, BWV 130 (3) [= Violine I, Ergänzung] [Part(s)]
Verschollen BWV 130, Originalstimme (Basso continuo (transp.), Fragment a) [Part(s)]
Verschollen BWV 130, Originalstimme (Flauto traverso) [Part(s)]
Verschollen BWV 130, Originalstimmen (Dubletten) [Part(s)]
Verschollen BWV 130, Sammlung Pleyel [= Basso] [Part(s)]
[Kantate BWV 130: Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir (1./2. Fassung)] Originalstimmensatz/original parts [Part(s)]
[Kantate BWV 130: Originalstimme Basso continuo (transp.)] [Part(s)]

Additional sources

CH-Zz Ms.Car XV 244 (32) : B 4 [Part(s)]
D-B Mus.ms. Bach P 1159/XV, Faszikel 1 [Score]
D-B Mus.ms. Bach P 453, Faszikel 4 [Score]
PL-Wu RM 5912 [Konvolut] [Score]
PL-Wu RM 5912, Faszikel 2 [Score]
RUS-KAu Mus. ms. Gotthold 23040 [Score]
Verschollen BWV 16 [?] oder 130, H. G. Nägeli [unknown]
Verschollen Sing-Akademie BWV 130, Partitur [Score]

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Edition

NBA I/30, S. 1 (Marianne Helms, 1973) – Critical report (1974), S. 11

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